Dwayne Monroe

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

In this sharply observed essay, my compadre and co-editor @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social applies Karl Kraus' century old assault on media and analysis of its impact on our thinking to current conditions. We have not improved. Indeed, we are worse off.

I agree. And for clarity's sake, my projection does not assume a fait accompli but is based on a hard, dialectical look at the conditions we face and their causes. Resist in all ways by all means, even reformist

Palestine and State Repression from Zionist Genocide to Sinclair Media and the White Left YouTube video by iMiXWHATiLiKE!

Palestine and State Repression from Zionist Genocide to Sinclair Media and the White Left ft @LBSBaltimore

www.youtube.com/live/UTENtce...

Many thanks for the interest. I'll definitely check out Stopgenai.com and, you can email me at: dmonroe0707@proton.me

I propose that the university, as currently understood will be killed by end stage capitalism compelling scholars of good will, who're brave, to build alternatives. The modern system served Cold War ends, though honest work was done. This technocratic age has ended. Now is the time of total war

Both, of course. History is full to the brim with stories of systems that showed maximum psychosis prior to collapse

We need the work of @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and colleagues now more than ever

Right. It wasn't long ago that people were compelled by Microsoft's unparalleled lobbying of the C suite to replace Tru64 Unix, Solaris and other sophisticated server OSes with primitive WinServers. We knew the political economy behind this but now, in the age of cowards, there's a shrug

This marks a significant change in the position of IT from the recent past when Microsoft was understood to be the enemy, grudgingly deployed based on 'leadership' directives and Linux was lauded. In my view, a failure of our field which has degraded into pure careerism and lazy non thought

2 Years of Resistance, 2 Years of Genocide featuring Abdaljawad Omar & Lara Sheehi; image of Palestinians exhilarated by the tearing down of the prison walls around the Gaza Strip concentration camp during Tufan Al Aqsa; images of guests; MAKC logo

Tuesday, October 7th at 10 AM ET / 5 PM in Palestine

We will be joined by Abdaljawad Omar & Lara Sheehi to discuss October 7th, 2023 with 2 years of hindsight, the last 2 years of resistance & genocide, the current moment, * the future of resistance www.youtube.com/live/vocPxGx...

The three aforementioned related themes sketched out in this section, will play out in the AI-social psychology relationships we will examine — namely: a. misunderstanding of the statistical modelswhich constitute contemporary AI, leading to inter alia thinking that correlation implies causation (Guest, 2025; Guest & Martin, 2023, 2025a, 2025b; Guest, Scharfenberg, & van Rooij, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025); b. confusion between statistical versus cognitive models when it comes to their completely non-overlapping roles when mediating between theory and observations (Guest & Martin, 2021; Morgan & Morrison, 1999; Morrison & Morgan, 1999; van Rooij & Baggio, 2021); c. anti-open science practices, such as closed source code, stolen and opaque collection and use of data, obfuscated conflicts of interest, lack of accountability for models’ architectures, i.e. statistical methods and input-output mappings are not well documented (Barlas et al., 2021; Birhane & McGann, 2024; Birhane et al., 2023; Crane, 2021; Gerdes, 2022; Guest & Martin, 2025b; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; Liesenfeld & Dingemanse, 2024; Liesenfeld et al., 2023; Mirowski, 2023; Ochigame, 2019; Thorne, 2009).

Being able to detect and counteract all these three together comprises the bedrock of skills in research methods in a time when AI is used uncritically (see Table 1). The inverse: not noticing these are at play, or even promoting them, could be seen as engaging in questionable research practises (QRPs; Brooker & Allum, 2024; Neoh et al., 2023; Rubin, 2023). Therefore, in the context of critical AI literacy for social psychology, and indeed cognitive, neuro-, and psychological sciences in general, the three points above serve as totemic touchstones, as litmus tests for checking somebody’s literacy in AI (Guest, 2024; Guest & Martin, 2021, 2025a, 2025b;

Guest, Scharfenberg, & van Rooij, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; Suarez et al., 2025; van Rooij & Baggio, 2021; van Rooij & Guest, 2025; van Rooij et al., 2024b). To wit, if somebody is able to minimally articulate these three related issues, how they manifest, and why they matter to our science, we can rest easy they know the basics of how to critically evaluate AI products in science.

Without Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) in psychology (doi.org/10.31234/osf...) we risk the following:

1️⃣ misunderstanding statistical models, thinking correlation is causation;

2️⃣ confusing statistical models and cognitive models, undermining theory;

3️⃣ going against stated open science norms.

4/

YouTube video by Microsoft - A Materialist Approach Lenin on Microsoft: AI and Stagnation

While we're on the subject of Microsoft, a year ago, I recorded this essay, applying Lenin's theory of imperialism to software colonialism: youtu.be/vPAyuP0A3Ek?...

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

A simple black and white zine from a folded piece of paper, with the title "Why GenAI SUCKS AND YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT" dated June 2025, version 1.1, author Lauren Woolsey. The zine is sitting on a green and gold cloth with a sun motif.

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!

The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Verdigris Critique for the Age of Decline

Oh and I plan to write a review of this paper for vdgasjournal.com

Excellent. Psychological research is an essential part of our collective toolkit (as is, I insist, psychoanalytical research). As @olivia.science says, these must be protected from the 'AI' onslaught. Lacan observed that psych, under capitalism, often led to the jailhouse. 'AI' is a force multiplier

"you can never see posts that Bluesky doesn't want you to see, but you're free to ban more posts or users beyond what Bluesky will ban. This system means that Bluesky inc retains the power to use their effective monopoly to suppress speech Graber finds distasteful"

Microsoft Copilot cartoon avatar faces

Microsoft Copilot AI tries faces instead of a pearly blob

You might think that, I couldn’t possibly comment

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUWv... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251002-mic... - podcast

time: 4 min 35 sec

It doesn't matter how annoying or mistaken 'boomers' are; you are also annoying and mistaken about various things because none of is is a god. More critically, the outsized generational bashing is a pysop that has separated you from knowledge and living history. Pure counter-insurgency.

I very much appreciated the opportunity to talk about the realities of data center materialism and the critical role of DCs in war, repression and settler colonialism's death drive

Always! Many of my fellow men believe their words are like proclamations from Augustus. No one's without fault of course; we all have our bad habits. But can they at least be interesting rather than predictably dull and muppet headed?

Thanks for watching!

This video discusses many of the failures but is still soured in quality by an underlying belief that things will somehow get 'better'

Trump calls for the firing of Lisa Monaco, Microsoft president of global affairs Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo brought up Monaco's position at Microsoft during her show. The appointment happened in July.

It will remain forever funny to me that the business community voted for Trump hoping that he would unleash a withdrawal of the government from the economy

Instead, and unsurprisingly, they get this kind of government meddling – which comes on top of the Trump-engineered economic instability

Truly!

I very much appreciate the work David G and Ed Zitron have been doing for years tracking the sector's dodgy financials. My focus is on data center materialism and yours (and colleagues) on academic impacts and unscientific assertions. This is a multi-front war so all hands on deck is great

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

Tomorrow’s free 18k word newsletter- The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel and the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA’s growth, leading to dark, dangerous circular financing reminiscent of Nortel.

Wheresyoured.at

Just One More Thing: Slavoj Zizek on Wokeness by Dwayne Monroe On 19 April, 2019 in Toronto, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek debated Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson (a man who, by issuing a relentless stream of absurd, dangerous and d…

A reminder: Zizek is a fool: vdgasjournal.com/2024/03/28/j...